"deathblow" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɛθbləʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-deathblow.wav [US] Forms: deathblows [plural]
Etymology: death + blow Etymology templates: {{compound|en|death|blow}} death + blow Head templates: {{en-noun}} deathblow (plural deathblows)
  1. A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace. Categories (topical): Death Synonyms (something that brings something to an end): another nail in one's coffin Translations (strike or blow): armonisku (Finnish), kuolinisku (Finnish), coup m fatal (French), coup de grâce [masculine] (French), Todesstoß [masculine] (German), banehugg [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), dēaþsleġe [masculine] (Old English), śmiertelny cios [masculine] (Polish), смерте́льный уда́р (smertélʹnyj udár) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-deathblow-en-noun-o6vpiW3A Disambiguation of Death: 79 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'something that brings something to an end': 58 42 Disambiguation of 'strike or blow': 100 0
  2. (figurative) Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback. Tags: figuratively Translations (something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence of some project etc): kuolinisku (Finnish), armonisku (Finnish), coup m fatal (French), Todesstoß [masculine] (German), estocada (Spanish), dödsstöt [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-deathblow-en-noun-46hn3Q-B Disambiguation of 'something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence of some project etc': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: death blow

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